Husband of missing Elizabeth resident accused of murder

8:09 AM,
Mar. 20, 2014

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The body of an Elizabeth resident who was reported missing three weeks ago by her husband was found late Tuesday in a vacant home on Southern Boulevard. Her spouse has been charged with murdering her by asphyxiation and blunt-force trauma, according to the Union County Prosecutor's Office.

Around 11 p.m. Tuesday, police discovered the body of Karla Jose Villagra Garzon, 32. Garzon, the mother of a 2-year-old, had been reported missing by her husband on Feb. 24, the morning after she disappeared.

The victim left her home on the 800 block of East Jersey Street in Elizabeth to walk to a local ...